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The Freeform Pathogen

Apr 6, 2022 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM

With Mike Lupica

Freeform radio for creative weirdos and deskbound dreamers. A sonic one-stop for Acid Dub, Beardo Bhangra, Micro-Folk Turntablism, Krautdrone, Cambodian Synthwave, Glam Pop, Art-Damaged Metal, Electro-Stoner Jazz, Proto Soul-Punk, DIY Hip-Hop, Psychedelic EDM, Minimalist Power Violence, Pre-Hipster NYC Weirdcore, and Afro-Hillbilly Futurism. Up and down this goddam dial since 1992.

Sometimes I remember that I'm on Twitter.

OFF WITH HIS HEAD

8:01 PM		Fishbone ? (Modern Industry) Fishbone - EP Columbia 1985
8:12 PM		Interrogación Amor NADA! N NADA! - Single Elefant Records 2022
8:15 PM		The Last Words Animal World 7" Rough Trade 1979
8:17 PM		DMZ Mighty Idy DMZ Sire 1978
8:20 PM		Pictish Trail Natural Successor N Island Family Fire Records 2022
8:25 PM		Dälek A Heretic's Inheritance N Precipice Ipecac Recordings 2022 Feat. Adam Jones of TOOL.
8:32 PM		Green Magnet School Windshield Bloodmusic Genius 1991
8:37 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
8:47 PM		Richard & Linda Thompson I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight Universal-Island Records Ltd. 1974
8:50 PM		Phairin Phonphibun Lam Tanwait Phairin N Classic Productions by Surin Phaksiri 2: Molam Gems V/A
8:53 PM		Solomon Fesshaye Save Our Place N Star City / Save Our Place - Single Ghostly International 2022
8:57 PM		Ecko Bazz Ntwala N Mmaso Hakuna Kulala 2022
9:00 PM		Nuha Ruby Ra My Voice N
9:03 PM		Tripod Jimmie Autumn Leaves Long Walk Off a Short Pier LP Do Speak 1982
9:07 PM		Ramones I Just Want to Have Something to Do Road To Ruin Sire 1978
9:10 PM		Double Cheese Mean As Fuck N The Black Album 2022
9:13 PM		Screamers Peer Pressure N Screamers Demo Hollywood 1977 - EP Superior Viaduct 2021
9:16 PM		Big Stick Potato Chip Dip (+ a bunch of other songs) LP Drag Racing Underground 2019
9:22 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
9:31 PM		Spontaneous Generation Up in My Mind Beyond the Calico Wall Voxx 1990
9:33 PM		His Name Is Alive We Sell Soul N Remain Alone (A Disciples Compilation) - EP V/A Disciples 2021 Roky Erickson cover
9:36 PM		The Edwin Hawkins Singers Oh Happy Day 7" Pavillon 1969
9:41 PM		Shilpa Ray Cry for the Cameras N Portrait of a Lady Northern Spy 2022
9:46 PM		Pete Galub Museum of Brotherly Love N Digital Single 2022
9:50 PM		Bobby Rydell Please Don't Be Mad 7" Cameo 1959 RIP.
9:53 PM		Amazulu Montego Bay Montego Bay / Only Love - Single Mango 1986
9:56 PM		Shabba Ranks Can't Drop Off a Shape Best Baby Father Digital B 1988
9:59 PM		Farazi & Pawz One Knuckle Duster N Knuckle Duster - Single Below System Records 2022
10:01 PM		KAINA Casita N It Was a Home City Slang 2022
10:05 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
10:12 PM		Richard Hell & The Voidoids Time Destiny Street Remixed Omnivore Recordings 2021
10:15 PM		Margie Brandon Green Grass of Home An Evening with Margie Brandon Aust-America 1971
10:20 PM		King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Blue Morpho (feat. Donato Dozzy) N Butterfly 3001 KGLW (King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard) 2022
10:25 PM		Nomads I'm Five Years Ahead of my Time Outburst What Goes On 1984
10:27 PM		The Monsters Dead N You're Class I'm Trash Voodoo Rhythm Records 2022
10:31 PM		Motorcycle Boy Cool You and Me Popsicle Triple X 1991
10:32 PM		Elton John Son of Your Father Tumbleweed Connection EMI 1970
10:38 PM		Pamela Z In the Other World N Echolocation Freedom To Spend 2022 Orig. 1988
10:41 PM		Purling Hiss Six Ways To Sunday Weirdon Drag City Records 2014
10:47 PM		Roxy Music In Every Dream Home a Heartache Viva! Roxy Music Island 1976

Chat is archived.

Greetings and Salutations!

Yo!

Yo, DJ MikeLupica!!

Should be a LIVE one tonight.

Also, does Jon know you're cheating on his playlist chat.

With a StudioCam!

But glad you are here -- I will need left coast input after the opening monologue.

Hello all

I typed my thanks to DJ JonSolomon! Caught his entire show!

Hey Rob!

This is the "Reverse Waltons" part of the show.

Pre-gameing before the Pathogen yea boy

"Reverse Waltons" also sounds like it could be a Jesus Lizard song title.

Hey TAndy!

THE JESUS LIZARD ❤️‍🔥

Good evneing Mike, MRM, Rob!

evneing

It bgeins

this is how it starts

Are you ready?

the GIF

Rn aF

AHHH YEAH!

good to know this chat opens early, I was waiting around outside

Dubya PRB

It's a little dreary & cold out there. So much nicer in the chat!

Hey DSM and Richard & Christine!

XPN, DRE, etc.

double ewe pier bee

Dating myself with DRE.

KYW being the weird outlier.

God, Mike is so dead-on with MMR etc.

I believe there's one station in Iowa that starts with an "A."

@Jon that feels illegal!

we don’t drop the K

Wow never thought about this. From my time in CA i would say most people did not drip the K

Gimme something to the tune of Dubya

Also, please note I *never* say 'PRB!

Out west they call soda Pop, so meh, they’re wrong again.

wow i always learn someth!ing on dad's show

K is a favorite letter and sound, actually.

KHOL

@jon mr. outlier, WPRB...

LOL

WDSM

Our brains seek symmetry...wprb: six syllables, the dubya balances the prb syllabically. Not so with monosyllabic "k"

Professional eggheads? Yup, it's a thing.

We never dropped the W in WCUR, but that’s because it’s West Chester University Radio.

We rarely talk about KPRB in Brush, Colorado.

WMrM

True in my world. Grew up in PA and listened to YSP, MMR, etc. Now living in Seattle and it's always KEXP, KCRW, etc.

Potheads there. :)

I do say 'PRB, 'ERU, 'XPN, etc. But then the other half of the time I include the W. Depends on the phase of the moon. 🌑🌒🌓🌔🌕

HAHAHA.. Saw Fishbone many times in Missoula at U of M

My first (brief) community radio stint was at KZUM in Nebraska...never dropped K. Tho "zuuuuuuum" woulda been perfect

I AM FEELING VALIDATED BY THESE REMARKS.

"Remember, this is for posterity, so be honest."

@Ben Reese - I lived in West Seattle and Bellingham, Wa. and got a ton of CBC radio. No regrets.

I didn’t even realize there was no ‘W’ west of the Mississippi, thats how ‘tuned’ in I was

Hi TAndy

HFS, GTB, MUC

USA military radio stations get "N" or "A" designations. The station I remember in Iowa that started with an "A" must have been one of those...

Hey TAndy DSM and Christine :)

Yes! That's right. Thank you for restoring my memory of That Class I Took In College.

Hey 2.0 Rob, and hey Roffle & jimbeaux!

Hey Richard and everyone!

I would think FCC or some body of importance wants all the call letters to be completely said on air. #SaveTheW

Oh yes, MrM makes an excellent point: You gotta say the 'W' if you want it to be legal for THE MAN.

I recall months ago a DJ explaining that back in ye olde days, a director at 'PRB would be miffed if someone said WPRB like "Dubya"

What is up with the stations that never say their call letters? Like 947 the Waaaa-eee-aaaaave

Hello WMikeLupiaA on WPRB!

WISH-FM, KISS-FM, WARM-FM, 99.5 THE BONE... That is a whole 'nother diatribe, DSM!

Yo Ambrose!

Hey Ambrose!

Hey TAndy, waking up or sleep timeish?

When it comes to the FCC, I follow the Marburg vs Madison prescedent: if they have an army, let them enforce it.

YO!YO! Everybody!

Hey Mike Lupica, DSM, Jon, Mary, Rob, Kristen, Richard, TAndy, MrM 💀, Roffle, jimbeaux, Ben, and all the PitCrew! And Bo!

I have just been informed the FCC has an army, being a branch of the federal government.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT PITCREW PLEASE RISE!

Don’t talk smack about the OCEAN! 🌊 @DSM! 😡

@Roffle Something told me to wake up literally minutes before Jon's Show, so still morning for me! Been watching Better Call Saul stuff while listening in before work

ok, I'm standing. now what?

Now dance.

Haven't worked that part out yet.

Hi Christine!

Hi yo Christine!

AndrewG!

Yes, what Christine said!

FRUG

I'm fistpumping like a good Jerseyan

Seriously forgot how good this DMZ record is.

Mike reminds us how 3 chords can rule!

I owned this a very long time ago, still sounds fresh!

Somehow dumped my copy of it years ago, had to console myself with an MP3 re-up.

Ambrose, aye!

Hi all, I keep going up to the top gif of the page to see if their dance matches the song.

It really works with this one.

Great start to the show! 🕺💃

Oddly that dance seems to work with everything

@Mike, on the Pictish Trail trail?😉

I remember going to a dance party where tvs were set up at eye level with videos of people nodding to the music.

PLEASE RISE, THEN FRUG!

Ambrose I am digging this record, but keep coming back to this song. I think it's my fave.

Fire has been putting out a lot of exciting, new things in addition to their many reissues!

@Mike, agreed!

Panko!

What was that foodstuff?

dälek!

Christine, still have the banana peppers with your name on 'em from... what was that, like 200 years ago?

Was that even foodstuff?

Seems like it.

New Dalek with That Guy from Tool!

Tool: A band I've never really listened to but which my wife likes a whole lot.

...but not Tim

From when the Starlite Lounge✨ was the Doomsday Pantry.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_signs_in_the_United_States

#longtimeago

Tool: yea, just sorta...

Jimbeaux, excellent reference!

mike, you were raving about dalek like 15 years ago and that is why I started listening to them. thanks for that

Scroll to the map and read about the k/w call sign outliers!

Haha! Thanks Andrew. I think my on-air raves about Dalek started around 1997. (Shudders.)

Doomsday Pantry! lol Christine!

@Roffle, that was really a thing!

@Roffle, Mike Lupica named it so!

All good Mike! Survival tools!

I think we re-branded as the Starlite Lounge once the vax came out. Y'know.... hope springs eternal.

Wait... I just realized that Dälek was on an album I listened to as a guest, one of the sickest tracks. Just had a connect-the-dots moment

Green Magnet School sounding like...Eisbar?

I think you are suffering from REES, Jon. (Repeated Eisbar Experience Syndrome)

A chill runs one down ones back!

TOOL 🖤

Delayed Reaction 👎

🐻‍❄️ ❄🐻‍❄️❄ 🐻‍❄️❄ 🐻‍❄️

🎂3️⃣🎂0️⃣🎂

Happy PRBversary!

Happy 30th WPRB Anniversary! 🎊🎙🎉

Mix tapes from when we where a kid from our friends is why I love this station. I really thank genus for that help.

Swag bag!!!

Damn that's a good album!

😍this song!

Must play anniversary segments of the first years of DJ MikeLupica !!! And top music selections from 1992!!! Wooooooo!!!

I used to play that on KUFM Missoula

I agree and concur with Ambrose Hughes!

Oh yeah, @Mike we were supposed to remind you to play Alice Coltrane, the psych-rock compilation, and maybe that hairy shirtless guy with the flute. From the post-show wrap up last week.

Yes, Christine! Good on ya!

I still have that psych comp pulled! The rest are back in cold storage... but still, there's always room for Herbie Mann.

https://www.google.com/search?q=herbie+mann+push+push&client=firefox-b-1-d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjDq8f03YD3AhUCj4kEHWZdCdYQ_AUoAXoECAIQAw&biw=1406&bih=762&dpr=2

he had velcro on his chest.

@Mr.M💀 I love most songs by RT & LT😍

I agree Ambrose!

Buttered Mann :)

This song hits btw, i love progressive house

Love Ghostly International Records! Thye've opened my ears to a lot of great sounds.

You might like tycho, one of the big guys on the label. His creativity is endless.

Hello this is rowan

!!!!!

Hi Rowan!

My daughter, everyone.

Hello, songs like the last one, put you in a rainbow bubbly mood!

Too much fun! DJ MikeLupicaDaughter!

Hey Ossy!

That was cute. Glad I checked out the Cam at the correct moment.

Hey Ossy! @MrM I'm still reeling from last night's story involving the Desert Daughter

Little delayed, but hi Rowan 👋

I yelped when this came on.

A yelp-worthy song!

Rife for rediscovery.

Yelp to the rhythm!

Love Tripod Jimmie song!!

It was the coolness @TAndy You could copy and paste it here? Add further details?

The late Tom Herman of Pere Ubu was in this band.

😲

TY...was trying to remember the UBU connection!

Uuh, PERE UBU❣️

I never notice the ironing board until this week.

Found this LA Times article about 'em! - https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-09-01-ca-25640-story.html

The Starlight Lounge never ceases to inspire

He irons all the denim for the block.

We iron, we make radio, WE MAKE SOUP...

HEY HO LETS GO

And indeed they did. All except CJ and Marky, right?

And Richie, I guess.

too soon?

I raise my glass in honor. First "real" band I ever saw live.

@Mike, afaik yes.

Buckle up, kids.

@Mike, lucky dude you!

@Mike, did you ever read Chelsea Horror by Dee Dee?

No. Is it... readable?

@Mike, It is the best Dee Dee Ramona Book I have ever read!

*Ramone*

https://i.etsystatic.com/5604520/r/il/bbc583/2976848372/il_1588xN.2976848372_qtkm.jpg

So gggoodd

Clear vinyl. Pretty!

@jon that is epic.

This is far out man!

Agree! My birthday is in two months.

@Mike 😆

June baby?

Aye

LOVE CRACKLES ON THE GAME GRID

Same here!👍

✨Love crackles and redemption

Oh nice.

WJFC radio

Love crackles always get me up in the aisles.

LOL Richard.

Oh mah heart is cracklin for this

Take us to church ⛪ ✝️☀️🙏. What I hear in the end of Tyler Perry's Madea's Witness Protection movie

Clap it out!

Oh god this almost makes me want to go to Easter service.

👏👏

💘

Oh, that fade-in using the crackles of the last record — A+

Fear not the love crackles. They have let a sinner know redemption.

RIP respect track up next.

Any guesses? Who reads the news?

WHO RECOGNIZED THE GIF AT THE TOP OF THE PAGE.

probby bobby rydell!

Swish!

I cannot identify it.

Jimbeaux for the three-pointer.

i been sinning and winning since the late 20th century

It’s Bye bye Birdy?

The gif? Yeah, I think that's Annette he's dancing with.

THE BOBBY RYDELL--->AMAZULU SEGUE HAS NOW HAPPENED. MY WORK ON THIS PLANET IS DONE.

Had no idea I needed this Amazulu song right now

DJ MikeLupica is TopNotch! 🏆

Joyous and wonderful!

SELECTA?

@Mike, what's the "Of With His Head" about?

Brap brap 🔉🔉🔉

Right on time

Hey hey Selecta

Awesome.

magic

Montego bay the most over rated spot in jamaica

I'm also pretty sure anyone can guess the gift if they right click and open the image in a new tab and since it takes to the Giphy page lolol

@Ambrose, it's what I assume you are all yelling every Wednesday by around 10:30.

SELECTA 🔥🌟🏝

Ossy it should go without saying but your profile picture is still amazing

HELLO Selecta!😊

Shabba for you ossy

It's time to say good Shabba.

Shabba Ranks, the man!

@Mike, NEVER!😲

(Just don't read his Wikipedia page.)

Shabba a family man now.

MASSIVE Jam Alert

Would like to add oh hapoy day 7inch with all its scratchy goodness was an amazing play 🔥🎶

Hey Mike, after the mic break... What is the song in the background of this mic break? It sounds 💣

Always great to be seen

Big up, Selecta Jerry!

Cheers, DJ SelectaJerry!!

Big up ms christine

Amazulu "started gaining appearances on television, including on The Young Ones (1984)" says the oracle

Mr malcontent how goes it?

We hit 99°! I’m irritated, DJ SelectaJerry! 🤣😎 How goes it with you??

No bad road. a hell of a road

Send it our way rainy and cold inna nj

Would if I could! Buttt I can’t so I won’t. 🥺

Thanks Dave!

Try harder mr m

😖💩

@Tandy, was that the heavy dub? That's by Trenchmouth, from their "Broadcasting System" LP.

@Mike, never heard this version, love it😍👍

Waiting for TAndy to right click and tell me the names of both people in that GIF 🧐

@Ambrose, the Margie Brandon track? She was an associate of Anton LaVey!

and name of production. Movie?

@Mary, you still here? I suspect you are the resident expert.

Mike, no, I meant Richard He'll but, duh me, it's a remix🙄

*Hell*

@DJ Mike Lupica Thanks!!

@MrM ann-margret-bye-birdie-bobby-rydell

Still here—what is the question? Who is in the gif?

The songs on wprb always somehow fit to what I watch, like Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends

Ha! Yeah, fascinating backstory on that Voidoids re-issue. As of last year, the album finally has the mix it deserves.

@Mary, I think MrM has a question about the Bobby Rydell/Bye Bye Birdie gif.

🇦🇺 👑🦎🧙🏽!

One of my fav KGLW

or GLW :)

That’s Ann Margret?

@Mike, aren't this band playing in these parts soonish?

🔥🎶🔥

Thanks to all trivia participants!!

@MrM the movie is Ann Margaret IIRC?

@richard, lol!

That’s not Ann Margret. Still trying to find the correct name. See another gif with Ann Margret in pink with red hair and this lady also. I’m too invested in this. Hahahaha

Oh, I see what you’re asking. I’m afraid I don’t remember.

Album called "You're Class, I'm Trash", flanger-drenched guitar solo, I'm smitten

Funny, that was also the working title for this Elton John record. Spooky!

rock. great cut!

Guud Stuffs 🎵🎶

no flanger, no credibility

Tell me this from vinyl selection?

Jerry, I was just literally DANCING WITH THE RECORD on the webcam.

Pamela Z 💜

Hell yeah KJFC!

Sweet. Sounded fab on the radio

I totally love this record. Pamela Z is like organic, fair trade, cruelty-free weirdo.

Anyone see LAURIE ANDERSON on 60 Minutes?!? Fun timez!

I see him again

WJFC

@MrMalcontent 💀, yes! Planning is underway for a trip to DC to see the exhibition.

That looks awesome, Christine! Enjoy it for me! Go through it twice!

The exhibition is great! Stuff from all time periods.

Nice Hiss cut here!

@Dennis, have you been?

I wanna hear everything and anything from PAMELA Z!

@DSM, it took me until this record to take this band as more than a punchline (based on their name.) Seriously great record.

Nice to hear some old Hiss.

@christine Mary and I were down there before the Sparks show. Make sure you sit at the table at the end.

Duh, just remembered to turn on the "On-Air" light.

@Mike, you mean to tell me?!?

So this show was not on the air this whole time?

Thanks for the tip, @Dennis.

Neil young vibes there

ROXY MUSIC 💟

🔥

Anybody going to see Roxy Music in Philly ?

Yet Another Thing I Did Not Buy Tickets For!

I’m busy that day

It was between that and taking The Kid to the Whitney Biennial. Bryan Ferry lost.

Take TheKid to BOTH

@Bo, when is this Roxy craic?

@Mike, There's always the records for the kid.

We will do a quick post-game on the YouTube channel at 11. But don't let that stop you from heading over to PAX's playlist!

Damn you Mike Lapica! I have to get up in 4 hours!

@Mr.M💀loads of West Coast gigs planned!

Sleep is for the weak.

Some kind of Kind, you are :)

Never took one lesson!

Hate the hybrids

@Christine, in the Fall, I think.

Playing the farg in sept

haha. gn ALL!!!!!!~

Thanks for this show Mike, goodnight everyone!

Great information. Thanks.

What is the DJ doing on Cam?!?

L0LZ

tallkin

my mouth is on fire from jalapenos help

Selecta to the rescue!👍

Thank you DJ Mike! 💎 Take care, Pit Crew!

thanks for the show dj mike!!

Hand

👏👏👏👏

always time well spent, thanks mike

MikeLupica and lasers and shiz

can't find the emojies

no hand but ready

✋

Cheers to all the Dears, especially those with Big Lizard Wizard Ears!

my 24 year old son just discovered KGLW

🌟🔥✝️💚🌸 Blessings!

Thanks for the great set mike appreciate all the vinyl spins

DJ MikeLupica, many thanks for another GEM of a show!! Big cheers and kind regards!!

Thanks for another TOP Show WMIK😜

CHEERS ALL Y"ALL

🤣 @AmbroseHughes

Peas Out y'all! Join me on the webcam link!

F fascists

G'night Pathogencers!

hahaha A

eyy

Yes we can hear you

Oooh TINARIWEN on vinyl!?!

PRINCE 👑💜🎸

see ya!!

Can't wait for the new PRB swag!

Don't forget to extinguish the candles & turn off the ON AIR sign

See everyone next week!

Appreciate you, DJ MikeLupica!

Thanks, Mike!

I have to check out that KPRB now.

KRPB... Must find out who their Wednesday night DJ is an challenge them to a vegetarian chili cookoff.

KPRB, you know what I meant.